The Chewbacca Defense

List creator: LCosgrove Created on: November 15, 2003 - 7:54 PM PST Description: Bizarre, senseless and oft-incoherent, these are the movies that make you scream, "That does not make sense!" Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Cherry, Harry & Raquel (1969)
Russ Meyer unfiltered -- whoa.
	Alice (1988)			Not Rated
Jan Svankmajer's peculiar take on "Alice in Wonderland".
	Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)			Not Rated
More Svankmajer; has a woman putting bread in her nose, among other things.
	Little Otik (2000)			Not Rated
Svankmajer's adaptation of a Czech fable about a carnivorous tree-baby.
	Awakening of the Beast (1969)			Not Rated
I suppose you would need LSD to make this film tolerable.
	The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Not one of the better rubber-reality movies.
	Barton Fink (1991)
The Coens' weirdest, and also their best.
	That Obscure Object of Desire (Criterion Collection) (1977)
Perfect capper to Bunuel's career.
	Belle De Jour (Criterion) (1967)
How much of this one is reality and how much is fantasy? You be the judge!
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Criterion Collection) (1972)
Always hungry, never eating...
	The Beyond (1981)			Not Rated
Fulci's finest hour.
	Brain Dead (1989)
What's really going on here? I have no idea.
	Branded to Kill (Criterion Collection) (1967)
Who cares if it's meaningless... it's so incredibly cool.
	Pistol Opera (2002)			Not Rated
In which Seijin Suzuki disappears up his own hindquarters.
	Careful (Remastered and Repressed) (1993)			Not Rated
If there's an aim here, I'm at a loss.
	Chasing Sleep (2000)
In the vein of "Repulsion" except that it kind of sucks.
	The Company of Wolves (1984)
Warning: Fairy tales can be hazardous to your health.
	A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)			Not Rated
Greenaway ruminates on death and corporeality, creates brilliance.
	The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Greenaway ruminates on art and privilege, creates nonsense.
	Videodrome (1982)			Not Rated
One of the most important movies of the '80s.
	Naked Lunch (Criterion Collection) (1991)
Not as whacked out as the book (how could it be?), but still a trip.
	eXistenZ (1999)
"Videodrome" remade as a videogame with a wicked sense of humor.
	Cure (1997)
Fascinating, murky, difficult; I'll give it another try some day...
	Audition (1999)			Not Rated
Stcik your neck down this rabbit hole, it comes out minus a head.
	Suspiria (1977)			Not Rated
Argento tries his hand at being a Grimm Brother, with spectacular results.
	Inferno (1980)
See that pipe? It leads directly into Dario's subconscious.
	Phenomena (Special Edition) (1984)			Not Rated
Monkey with a straight razor! Monkey with a straight razor!
	The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Argento attempts a return to the dream world, except that he's misplaced his talent.
	Emanuelle in America (1976)			Not Rated
If I get a brain tumor, I'm blaming this rotten film.
	Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Rendered me speechless for twenty minutes.
	Eraserhead (1977)			Not Rated
I still don't know what's going on here, and I don't really care.
	Lost Highway (1997)
It'd be perfect if Balthazar Getty wasn't in it.
	The Eternal (1998)
Who got art in my mummy movie?
	New Rose Hotel (1998)
The single most confused motion picture I've ever suffered through.
	The Blackout (1997)
Burn the negative.
	Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)			Not Rated
Early Herzog + midgets = huh? (I liked it anyway...)
	Eye of the Beholder (1999)
There was an explosion at the story factory which left plot fragments everywhere -- somehow, they all got disposed of here.
	Fando & Lis (1967)
It's Jodorowsky... what do you think it's gonna be like?
	Ganja & Hess (1973)
More fun to hear about and theorize about than it is to actually watch.
	I Married a Strange Person (1997)			Not Rated
You suuuuuuure did.
	The Isle (2000)			Not Rated
This means something, I know it does...
	Kill by Inches (1999)			Not Rated
This movie's dumb.
	Liquid Sky (1982)
Anne Carlisle plays a lesbian and a gay man in the same film; meanwhile, an alien vaporizes everyone.
	The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)
This was not a good idea, Mr. Figgis.
	Love Is The Devil (1998)
Zzzzzzzzz.
	Nude For Satan (1974)			Not Rated
Rita Calderoni menaced by a really fake-looking spider: one of the best bad-movie moments ever.
	Open Your Eyes (1997)
Harder to pin down than a hummingbird on speed.
	Organ (1996)
Trying to untangle the messy, vague plot could cause brain hemorraging.
	Something Weird (1967)			Not Rated
More like "Something Awful".
	Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)			Not Rated
Salaryman turns into machine: allegory or just hyped-up weirdness?
	Tetsuo II: Bodyhammer (1992)
More murderous metal-man mania.
	Time and Tide (2000)
Do you know who's shooting at who? Do you care?
	Uzumaki (2000)			Not Rated
I found a spiiiiiiiiral....
	Vampyr (1931)			Not Rated
Maybe the creepiest vampire film ever, more so because it doesn't make a lick of rational sense.